US & Canada in Depth: Top 100 News Headlines on 4/5/15

Fellow fans of antiquarian books will enjoy this 13-minute video from lawprof and historian Mark Weiner. He explains: “Do law and film ever treat time in the same way? The answer led me back to a set of books from the seventeenth century...

Gay rights advocates are hoping to parlay the momentum from their legislative victories in Indiana and Arkansas this week into further expanding legal protections for gays and lesbians in those … Click to Continue »

As the flu season winds down for humans, there’s now a deadly outbreak of the flu among canines in Chicago. As Kris Van Cleave reports, there have been a thousand cases so far, five fatal, and health officials warn those numbers could grow.

Matthew Rison of Provo was charged Thursday in 3rd District by the Utah Attorney General's Office with second-degree felony counts of theft, communications fraud and engaging in a pattern of unlawful activity. According to charging docum...

Conservative state legislators frustrated with the gridlock in Washington are increasingly turning to a plan to call a convention to consider a new amendment to the U.S. Constitution — an event that would be unprecedented in American his...

(AP) — Authorities have accused a 22-year-old Billings woman of huffing while driving with a 5-month-old child in the back seat. The Billings Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/1FbbHFs ) that Costa was charged with felony criminal endangerme...

The divisions seen in Congress, and between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the framework agreement on Iran's nuclear program are reverberating across communities and political parties in the United Sta...

A University of South Carolina student has been suspended by the school after writing on a study hall whiteboard that “n*****s” were to blame for the school’s poor WiFi signal. According to the New York Daily News, the...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mormon leaders vowed to be a leading advocate for the belief that marriage is an institution exclusive to a man and a woman during the religion's biannual conference Saturday that also included two rare events. The ...

Ottawa RedBlacks quarter Henry Burris is locked in a battle off the gridiron to acquire Canadian citizenship. His job as a professional football player is considered part-time work and that's making things tougher for him.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (Reuters) - Less than three weeks after Utah enacted the state's first nondiscrimination protections for gay and transgender residents, the Mormon Church on Saturday extolled the eternal value of marriage between a m...

VANCOUVER - The sound of boat horns and cheering from hundreds of excited onlookers saturated the smoke-filled ocean air as demolition crews sank a former Canadian warship off the B.C. coast on Saturday. After years of legal wrangling, t...

BURGEO, N.L. – The coast guard says repairs are underway on an icebreaker that struck a rocky shoal off Newfoundland, but poor weather could delay the process. Spokeswoman Jan Woodford says crews have welded a steel plate to cover ...

"Flu-like symptoms" my ass. The last couple of days have been a horror story. On Thursday afternoon, out of the blue, I started having intense lower back pain. Then it got worse. By late evening it was bad enough that I took some morphin...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – Tyler Randell’s goal at 19:36 of the third period was the winner as the Providence Bruins swept their two-game stand in St. John’s by edging the IceCaps 5-4 on Saturday in American Hockey League...

BARRIE, Ont. – Doctors in Toronto are running tests on a patient who is showing symptoms consistent with the Ebola virus, though medical officials are stressing the risk is low. Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre in Barrie says ...

According to the New York Daily News , Harvey Weinstein seemed to confirm that he came into physical contact in an inappropriate way with Italian model Ambra Battilana in a phone call with her that was being monitored by police. http://d...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Many members of the Los Angeles-area Iranian community, the largest in the United States, are skeptical about a preliminary nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers, even though a pact could end decades of int...

VANCOUVER – Dozens of onlookers turned out Saturday afternoon to watch as demolition crews sent a former Canadian warship to its watery resting place off the B.C. coast. After years of legal wrangling, the Artificial Reef Society o...

BELOEIL, Que. - A major fire in a golf ball factory east of Montreal caused the temporary evacuation of a number of homes affecting about 100 residents and the closure of a major highway Saturday afternoon. The fire began Saturday mornin...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Columbia University review of a now-discredited Rolling Stone story about an alleged gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity is due out on Sunday, addressing the questions of journalistic ethics raised b...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — News organizations following up on Rolling Stone's horrifying tale of a gang rape at the University of Virginia exposed serious flaws in the report and the Charlottesville Police Department said its four-month invest...

(Reuters) - The University of South Carolina has suspended a student for writing a racial slur on a study room whiteboard and will investigate the student for code of conduct violations, according to the school’s president.

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - After centuries on the fringe of consumer finance, the neighborhood pawn shop is pushing its way toward the mainstream, thanks to the power of reality television and the long arm of government regulation.

OTTAWA - The federal government is confirming that an undisclosed number of Canadians have been taken out of Yemen, amid Russian state media reports that the Kremlin had helped them leave. Foreign Affairs spokesman John Babcock said in a...

President Barack Obama assured Americans on Saturday that a newly negotiated framework for a nuclear pact with Iran was a "good deal" as he sought public support for a diplomatic breakthrough that many in Congress oppose.

A University of South Carolina student with a lot to learn about both racial tolerance and computer networking was suspended for her ignorance on Friday, the result of a viral photo that showed her listing "niggers" as the primar...

Officials in Ferguson, Missouri, have released the full content of racially charged and religiously insensitive emails, including about President Barack Obama, sent between the city’s former court clerk and two ex-police supervisors.

TORONTO - Toronto City Councillor Rob Ford has been appointed to the Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum's board of directors. Museum spokesman Kelly Masse says that Ford was elected to the board for the first time at a member's meeting on Ma...